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Will of Thomas Woodward of Shipton, gentleman, 1891 (proved 1893)
Oxford Probate Registry
BE IT KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament with a Codicil thereto of Thomas Woodward formerly of Shipton in the Parish of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, but late of Swanbourne in the same County, Gentleman, deceased, who died on the Tenth day of March 1893, at Swanbourne aforesaid, and who at the time of his death had a fixed place of abode at Swanbourne aforesaid, within the district of the Counties of Oxford, Berks and Buckingham, was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of His Majesty’s High Court of Justice at Oxford, and that Administration of all the personal estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Henry Dancer of Holcombe Farm Swanbourne aforesaid, Farmer, the Nephew of the Deceased, and Thomas Price Willis of Winslow aforesaid, Solicitor, the Executors named in the said Will, they having been first sworn well and faithfully to administer the same.
Dated the 13th day of October 1893
Gross value of Personal Estate £4,300-15-1
Net value of “ “ £4,213-8-1
Extracted by Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Woodward of Shipton in the Parish of Winslow in the County of Bucks, Gentleman. I appoint my Nephew Henry Dancer and my friend Thomas Price Willis of Winslow in the said County of Bucks (who are hereinafter referred to as “my said Trustees”) to be the Executors and Trustees of this my will. I bequeath all my plate linen china glass books pictures prints wines liquors furniture and other household effects and all my carriages and horses farming stock and utensils unto my niece Esther Catherine Read Bennett absolutely. I bequeath to my said Trustees the sum of Six hundred pounds which belonged to my late Wife which I take as her husband and administrator to her effects Upon Trust to invest the said sum of Six hundred pounds pursuant to the general direction for investment hereinafter contained. And upon further trust to pay the income arising from the said sum of Six hundred pounds or the investments for the time being representing the same to my daughter Sarah Ann Martha Belgrove during her life. And from and after her decease as to the said sum of Six hundred pounds and the stocks funds and securities for the time being representing the same Upon Trust to pay share and divide unto and equally among my brother in law John Baseley my sister in law Elizabeth Bennett and my said niece Esther Catherine Read Bennett. And I declare that if either of them the said John Baseley Elizabeth Bennett and Esther Catherine Read Bennett dying either in my lifetime or the lifetime of my said daughter leaving issue such issue shall take the share to which his her or their parent would have been entitled if living at the time when the said sum of Six hundred pounds or the investments for the time being representing the same would become divisible. I devise all my real estate (if any) and I bequeath my residuary personal estate not hereby otherwise disposed of unto my said Trustees Upon trust that my said Trustees shall sell call in and convert into money the same or such part thereof that shall not consist of money and shall with and out of the moneys produced by such sale calling in and conversion and out of my ready money pay my funeral and testamentary expenses and debts and the sum of One thousand pounds to my said niece Esther Catherine Read Bennett and invest the residue of the said money pursuant to the general direction for investment hereinafter contained with power for my said trustees from time to time to vary such investments. And shall stand possessed of the said residuary trust moneys and investments for the time being representing the same (hereinafter called the said residuary trust funds). In trust to pay the income thereof to my daughter Sarah Ann Martha Belgrove during her life. And from after her decease to pay share and divide to pay the said residuary trust funds unto the child if only one or unto and equally among all the children if more than one of my said daughter as and when they shall severally and respectively attain the age of twenty one years and in the event of there being no grandchild of mine who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years then Upon trust to pay share and divide the said residuary trust funds unto and equally among my nephews John Gray William Gray Edward Gray George Gray and the said Henry Dancer and to my said niece Esther Catherine Read Bennett. And I also declare that all moneys liable to be invested under this my Will may at the discretion of my said trustees may be invested as found at my decease or be invested in or upon any stocks funds or securities of or guaranteed by the Government of the United Kingdom or any British Colony or Dependency or in Stock of the Bank of England or the dentures or debenture stock or guaranteed or preference stock or shares of any Railway or other Company in Great Britain or India incorporated by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter and paying a dividend on its ordinary stock or shares upon real securities in England but not elsewhere. And in lending money on any mortgage security my trustees may accept whatever title or evidence of title shall appear to them sufficient to them without being answerable for any loss arising thereby and my trustees may release any part of the property comprised in any mortgage security if satisfied that the remaining property is a sufficient security for the money owing thereon. And I further declare that the said Thomas Price Willis and any future trustee of this my Will who may be a Solicitor shall be entitled to charge and be paid out of the trust premises for all business done by him in relation to the trust premises in like manner as he would have been entitled to charge the trustees for the same if not being himself a trustee he had been employed by them to do such business as their Solicitor. Lastly I revoke all other Wills. In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Woodward the Testator have hereunto set my hand this Twelfth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety one.
Signed and acknowledge by the above named Thomas Woodward the Testator as his Will in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
Thomas Woodward [signature]
T. L. Kennish M.B., Winslow
William N. Midgley, Clerk to Messrs Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me William Woodward of Shipton in the Parish of Winslow in the County of Bucks, Gentleman, which Will bears the date the Twelfth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety one. And I hereby bequeath unto my niece Esther Catherine Read Bennett in addition to (and not by way of substitution for) any specific bequest or bequests to her contained in my said Will all my ready money all money at my Bankers and all interest or proportions of interest sums which may be due to me (on mortgage or other securities) to the date of my decease. And in all other respects I ratify and confirm my said Will. In Witness whereof I the said Thomas Woodward the Testator have hereunto set my hand this Twenty seventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and ninety two.
Thomas Woodward [signature]
Signed and acknowledge by the above named Thomas Woodward the Testator as a Codicil to his Will in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as Witnesses.
William N. Midgley, Clerk to Messrs Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow.
G. A. Midgley, Ironmongers Assistant, Winslow (14 folios)
Proved at Oxford, with a Codicil, the Thirteenth day of October 1893 by the Oaths of Henry Dancer, the Nephew, and Thomas Price Willis, the Executors to whom administration was granted.
The Testator Thomas Woodward was formerly of Shipton in the Parish of Winslow in the County of Buckingham, but late of Swanbourne in the same County, and died on the Tenth day of March 1893 at Swanbourne aforesaid.
Gross value of Personal Estate £4,300-15-1
Net value of “ “ £4,213-8-1
Willis & Willis, Solicitors, Winslow
It is hereby certified that the foregoing is a correct copy. Dated this Nineteenth day of October 1893.
Notes
Thomas Woodward was 74 when he died on 16 March 1893. He was born at Swanbourne. In 1891 he was a retired farmer and lived at The Cottage, Shipton, with his niece Esther. In 1881 he was living at Red Hall Farm, which he took over from his brother John who died in 1879. His nephew Henry Dancer took over the farm when he retired in 1887.
Woodward was the mortgagee of Nash Brakes Farm when he died. T.P. Willis apparently retained some of his assets, so Henry Dancer had a claim of £866 against Willis' estate in 1912 and the farm was put up for sale.